I'm a newbie to all this - just joined last night! I was watching the Developer's training videos and saw the recommendations for a good development environment on the Mac... However I have a Windows 7 machine!

So, I was wondering if anyone out there can recommend a good local Windows development environment (free is extra good!) I saw one post mentioned the "Instant WordPress" package as an option...

I'm wondering if anyone has tried the Instant WordPress option, or could receommend anything else please??